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| Sinha gone, Vohra no different for PDP | | Karra questions administrative reshuffle, sidelining of local officers | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | July 24
After the exit of its “self proclaimed enemy number one” Lt Gen SK Sinha, the Peoples Democratic Party had welcomed his predecessor NN Vohra with open arms but within a month of his taking over at Raj Bhawan, the party is now finding faults with the new Governor for more than one reason.
During the month of June there was a full drawn political war between Jammu and Kashmir and the battle lines were clearly drawn between then Governor Gen SK Sinha and the entire Peoples Democratic Party leadership. However, when Sinha demitted office and Vohra took over on June 25, the PDP celebrated the change of guard at Raj Bhawan as its victory. Soon after, Vohra emerged as PDP’s hero for his decisions to surrender the land earlier allotted to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board and then for not supporting then Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s last ditch efforts to save his government.
Interestingly, as Vohra is about to complete his one month in office tomorrow, the PDP is fresh with renewed attacks against the Governor. This time, it is the issue of transfers and postings of officers in Civil Administration and Police. In a veiled attack, apparently on Governor and the Chief Secretary, the PDP has alleged that the local officers have been sidelines from the key administrative posts.
In a soft statement with hard message, the former Finance Minister Tariq Hameed Karra today said a perception has started gaining ground that through some recent administrative reshuffles, the local officers were marginalized by shifting them to insignificant positions. “In the absence of any political link between the Government and the people, marginalization of local officers in the higher echelons of the administration would further widen the gulf between the Government and the masses”.
He added, "such a detested administrative scenario would not only brew resentment among the local officers, but could also add to people's alienation and disquiet," he said and added that the Governor N N Vohra, who is gifted with tremendous administrative expertise, must, through demonstrative action, dispel such hazardous apprehensions.
Expressing dismay over the reports that some Government functionaries have even now started browbeating the media, especially in the Kashmir valley, Karra said unfortunately, it has been noted in the past as well, that during the Governor's rule in the State, a particular section of the bureaucracy starts functioning as a super-authority by acting out-of-turn on the sensitive issues and institutions of the State. "Such actions of these officers have led to unpleasant situations in the past and if kept unchecked, they could repeat their follies with similar repulsive results," he said.
Karra said in the run-up to the assembly elections, such unwarranted actions are only going to complicate the situation and make matters shoddier for the Government. "We must keep in mind that the State is passing through a very critical and susceptible phase and any impulsive action by any quarter, within or outside the Government, could lead to inconceivable consequences," he said and added that the Governor should ensure that no officer is allowed to cross the limits of his delegated functioning and try to meddle in the affairs that are beyond his domain.
"I have, in the past as well, questioned the partisan role of certain quarters in the civil and police administration, whose premeditated biased actions, unfortunately, seem to have escalated with vengeance of late," Karra said and called for immediate check on the questionable actions of these elements, who otherwise could cause great harm to the existing fragile political scenario.
Karra said a delegation of senior PDP leaders is going to meet the State Governor shortly and would bring to his notice the specific instances of the dubious functioning of some government functionaries. |
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